Categorization of non-contiguous transactions

ABSTRACT

Provided, in an aspect, is a method for improved management of transaction data from a financial services computer network. The method includes receiving details for a first purchase, detecting that the first purchase is a trigger purchase, obtaining secondary details for the first purchase, receiving details for a later-made second purchase and additional purchases made between the first purchase and second purchase, and determining that the first purchase and the second purchase belong to the same experience set and that the additional intervening purchases do not belong to the same experience set as the first purchase and the second purchase.

BACKGROUND

Systems for managing personal finances, for example expenses, may relyon a series of individual or discrete transactions. Transactions may beautomatically imported from a financial services account, such as acredit card account, entered manually by a user, or otherwise obtainedby the system. Once the transactions are obtained, the system maydisplay them individually on a display screen.

A transaction may have a merchant category code (MCC) associated withit. The MCC is an ISO standard that can be assigned to a merchant by acredit card company. Some systems for managing personal finances mayallow displaying the MCC with each transaction. For example, a taxipayment may be categorized as “transportation,” and a movie ticketpurchase may be categorized as “entertainment” according to apre-assigned merchant category code. When such categorizations areavailable, either as automatically supplied by a financial institutionor as entered manually by a user (the user-entered codes may bedifferent from standard MCCs, unless the system only allows a user toenter a standard MCC), some systems may further allow displayingsubgroups of transactions based on their category codes. This may allowa user to see what merchant categories involve the most expenses. Banksand other financial institutions may group transactions using merchantcategory codes for the purpose of defining rules and restrictions aroundthose transactions. Consequently, there may be a number of categoriesthat are redundant or unhelpful to users, since MCCs are primarilyfocused on merchants and are limited to describing transactions inisolation from their context. Lack of their user focus and lack of theiruser customization further limit the usefulness of MCCs.

In addition, transactions are often ordered and displayed by financialmanagement software based on their dates of settlement. As such, thedisplayed order of transactions that a user sees might be different fromthe order in which the user has actually made the transactions. Furtheradding to the challenges of interpreting a list of transactions,unrelated transactions might be ordered next to each other while therelated ones might be interspersed with many unrelated ones in betweenthem, either due to imprecise and inaccurate chronology or due to thenatural way in which users make purchases.

Some systems may allow a user to view total amounts spent during aspecified period, or to view the total amounts spent during a periodfrom transactions with certain merchant category codes. However, usersmay find it difficult to understand from these systems how their moneyis spent beyond the individual transactions and merchant category codes,in addition finding it challenging to draw conclusions from the standard(often incorrect) chronology of the transactions.

SUMMARY

In an aspect of the present disclosure, a method for improved managementof transaction data from a financial services computer network includesreceiving, from the financial services computer network, details for afirst purchase made by a user on a start date; detecting that the firstpurchase is a trigger purchase; obtaining secondary details for thefirst purchase from a data source external to the financial servicescomputer network, wherein the secondary details for the first purchaseindicate that the first purchase is associated with an event on a targetdate later than the start date; receiving, from the financial servicescomputer network, details for a second purchase made by the user on thetarget date; receiving details for one or more other purchases madeafter the first purchase and before the second purchase; determiningthat the second purchase and the first purchase are part of a commonexperience set by comparing the details for the second purchase with atleast one of the details for the first purchase and the secondarydetails for the first purchase, wherein the one or more other purchasesare determined not to be part of the common experience set; and storingthe common experience set to a database.

In some embodiments of the method, the first purchase is detected as atrigger purchase by comparing the first purchase details withpredetermined attributes from a trigger transaction database. The methodmay further include receiving details for one or more additionalpurchases made after the second purchase, and categorizing the one ormore additional purchases as part of the common experience set. Themethod may also include determining that each of the additionalpurchases is related to the first purchase by comparing each of theadditional purchase details with the first purchase details, with thefirst purchase secondary details, or with both the first purchasedetails and the first purchase secondary details. The first purchasesecondary details may further include an end date after which nopurchases are categorized as part of the common experience set. In someembodiments, the first purchase details and the second purchase detailsare received concurrently with each other. The first purchase detailsand the second purchase details may also be received separately and inreal time as each of the first purchase and the second purchase is made.

In some embodiments, the first purchase is detected as a triggerpurchase when the first purchase details indicate that the firstpurchase corresponds to purchasing a flight ticket, purchasing a cruiseticket, purchasing a train ticket, purchasing a bus ticket, reserving arental car, reserving an event space, booking a hotel space, booking amotel space, or booking a hostel space. The first purchase secondarydetails may be obtained via email scraping (e.g., after obtaining anauthorization). The first purchase secondary details may also beobtained from a third-party supplier. The target date may be one day toone year after the start date (e.g., 2 days, 10 days, 1 month, 2 months,6 months). In some embodiments, the target date may be more than a weekand less than two months after the start date.

In an aspect of the present disclosure, a method for improvingcategorization of transactions by money-management software includesreceiving a first transaction made on a first date from a financialservices computer network; detecting that the first transaction is atrigger transaction (e.g., the first of a set of transactions that forma common experience set) by matching first transaction attributes topredetermined trigger transaction attributes; obtaining forecast datafor the first transaction from a forecast agent, wherein the forecastdata include a second date; receiving, after a period encompassing aplurality of unrelated transactions, a second transaction made on thesecond date; determining that the second transaction and the firsttransaction are part of an experience set by comparing the forecast datato second transaction attributes; and storing the experience set to adatabase.

In some embodiments, the method further includes receiving input from auser indicating that the first transaction is a trigger transaction. Theforecast data in the method may further include a place. The method mayalso include receiving input from a user to modify the forecast data. Insome embodiments, the method includes displaying a confirmation afterthe second transaction. In some embodiments, a reminder is displayedbefore the second date. The method may also include acquiring a choicefrom a user regarding the second transaction, and determining that thesecond transaction is related to the first transaction based on thechoice. In some embodiments of the method, summary of the experience setcan be generated.

In one aspect of the present disclosure, a non-transitorycomputer-readable medium for forming an experience set from a pluralityof transaction data with instructions stored on the medium that whenexecuted by a processor perform steps that include receiving a firsttransaction; detecting that the first transaction is a triggertransaction, wherein the first transaction is detected as a triggertransaction when the first transaction corresponds to purchasing aflight ticket, purchasing a cruise ticket, purchasing a train ticket,purchasing a bus ticket, reserving a rental car, reserving an eventspace, booking a hotel space, booking a motel space, or booking a hostelspace; obtaining contextual data for the first transaction, wherein thecontextual data is obtained from a third-party supplier; receiving,after more than a week encompassing a plurality of unrelatedtransactions, a second transaction; determining by using the contextualdata that the second transaction and the first transaction are part ofan experience set; and displaying a summary of the experience set,wherein the summary includes each transaction and total transactionamount. The displayed summary may also include a descriptive name forthe experience set.

In an aspect of the present disclosure, a system with a scalablearchitecture for managing transactions from a financial servicescomputer network includes a database; one or more processors; aplurality of experience matchers; and a transaction hub. The experiencematchers may be associated with a different experience set type, each ofthe experience matchers being configured for execution by the one ormore processors to receive a list of transactions; identify, within thelist of transactions, one or more experience sets having an associatedexperience set type, wherein each experience set encompasses one or moretransactions related (e.g., temporo spatially, logically) to each otherfrom the list of transactions; and return the one or more identifiedexperience sets. On the other hand, the transaction hub may beconfigured for execution by the one or more processors to receive atransaction stream from a financial services computer network; send alist of transactions generated from the transaction stream to aplurality of experience matchers; receive one or more identifiedexperience sets from the plurality of experience matchers; and store theidentified experience sets in the database.

In some embodiments of the system, each of the experience matchers isconfigured for execution by the one or more processors to furtherdetermine, and return to the transaction hub, a match score for each ofthe one or more identified experience sets. The transaction hub may beconfigured for execution by the one or more processors to furtherprioritize allocation of a transaction into an identified experience setbased on the match scores. The match score is determined based on afactor such as a transaction time range, transaction merchant codes,transaction physical proximity, transaction temporal proximity, or acombination of such factors. In some embodiments of the system, each ofthe experience matchers is configured for execution by the one or moreprocessors to perform the search and return operations in real time witha delay of less than ten minutes after receiving the list oftransactions. The transaction hub may be configured for execution by theone or more processors to receive the transaction stream in real timewith a delay of less than ten minutes after a transmittal of a newtransaction to be appended to the list of transactions. The system maybe configured to be modified by addition of new independent experiencematchers. The new experience matchers may be created based on userresearch, or via machine learning.

In an aspect of the present disclosure, a method for forming anexperience set from a transaction list from a financial servicescomputer network using a scalable system architecture includes obtainingby a transaction hub a past transaction list from a financial servicescomputer network; receiving by the transaction hub a transaction fromthe financial services computer network; updating by the transaction hubthe past transaction list into a current transaction list by adding inthe transaction; sending by the transaction hub the current transactionlist to each of a plurality of independent experience matchers;analyzing by each of the experience matchers the current transactionlist to identify an experience set; receiving by the transaction hub anidentified experience set from one of the experience matchers, whereinthe experience set contains at least two transactions from the currenttransaction list; and storing the experience set by the transaction hubin a database.

In some embodiments of the method, the current transaction list containstransactions from a predetermined time range. The time range may bethirty days. In some embodiments, the time range may be selected (e.g.,60 days, 50 days, 40 days, 30 days, 20 days, 10 days, 5 days, 24 hours).The transaction may be received in real time with a delay of less thanten minutes. The matching experience set may also be received in realtime with a delay of less than ten minutes. The method may furtherinclude receiving from each of the experience matchers a match score.The match score may be determined based on transaction time, transactiontype, transaction distance, and transaction interval. The method mayalso include revising the plurality of experience matchers, or revisingthe experience set, which may be revised via machine learning.

In one aspect of the present disclosure, a system for generating ahumanized experience set from a list of transactions from a financialservices computer network includes a transaction database; one or moreprocessors; and memory operably linked to the one or more processors,wherein the memory has disposed in it a scalable system of softwarearchitecture. The architecture, in this aspect, includes a transactionhub and a plurality of independent experience matchers. The transactionhub may have instructions executable by the one or more processors toreceive a transaction stream from a from a financial services computernetwork in real time with a delay of less than ten minutes after arecent transaction; send a list of transactions generated from thetransaction stream to a plurality of independent experience matchers;receive one or more identified experience sets and their match scoresfrom the experience matchers, wherein each experience set encompassesone or more transactions from the list of transactions; prioritizeallocation of a transaction into an identified experience set based onthe match scores, thereby obtaining a prioritized identified experienceset; and store the prioritized identified experience set in thetransaction database. The plurality of independent experience matchersmay have instructions executable by the one or more processors toreceive a list of transactions from the transaction hub; analyze thelist of transactions to identify one type of experience set; determine amatch score for each identified experience set, wherein the match scoreis determined based on a factor such as a transaction time range,transaction merchant codes, transaction physical proximity, transactiontemporal proximity, or a combination of such factors; and return one ormore identified experience sets, each of a common experience set type,and their one or more match scores to the transaction hub.

In an aspect of the present disclosure, a method for improvedvisualization of transaction data from a financial services computernetwork includes receiving, at a computing device, a plurality ofexperience sets; presenting, on a display of the computing device, agraphical user interface (GUI); and updating the GUI in response toreceiving a revision to the plurality of experience sets. In thisaspect, each experience set includes an experience set name, anexperience set date (or date range), an experience set time span, and anexperience set amount, whereas each experience set contains one or moretransactions that relate to each other (e.g., temporospatially,logically), while each transaction includes a transaction place, atransaction time, and a transaction amount; Again in this aspect, theGUI includes a scrollable list including at least a portion of theexperience set name for experience sets within a selected time period,the scrollable list including a chronological order based on theexperience set date (or the initial date of a date range, or the lastday of a date range, or another representative date of the date range,such as mean date, median date, weighted average date, etc.) for each ofthe experience sets; and a calendar for the time period showing, foreach day, a graphical element indicative of a total of all experienceset amounts in that day. When an experience set has transactions thatoccur within a date range, the term “experience set date” is used torefer to a representative date (e.g., a date that is nearest to themiddle of the date range, in some embodiments, unless otherwisespecified).

In some embodiments, the method further includes displaying on thegraphical user interface of the computing device, alongside the portionof the experience set name for each of the experience sets, one or moreexperience details such as an experience set location, an experience settime span, an experience set amount that corresponds to a total of alltransaction amounts in the experience set, a list of three transactionnames for transactions with greatest transaction amounts in theexperience set, or a combination of such details. In some embodiments,the method further includes, in response to a user scrolling through thescrollable list, highlighting in the calendar a graphical element thatcorresponds to a topmost experience set visible on the display screen.In some embodiments, the method further includes, in response to a usertapping on a graphical element in the calendar, automatically scrollingthe scrollable list to place a corresponding experience set to bevisible on the display screen above other experience sets.

In some embodiments, the method further includes, in response to a userinput, displaying a territorial map showing each transaction placeencompassed by a chosen experience set. In some embodiments, the methodfurther includes, in response to a user input, excluding each predefinednon-discretionary transaction from each experience set, and accordinglyrevising the calendar. The method may also include, in response to auser input, modifying an experience set. Methods that further includereceiving from a user feedback regarding an experience set are alsoencompassed in the aspect. In some embodiments, an experience setincludes transactions made within a preset distance to a user's defaultlocation and within a preset time window around noon. In someembodiments, an experience set includes transactions made farther than apreset distance from a user's default location. In some embodiments, anexperience set includes transactions made within a preset distance to auser's default location and within a preset time window around 9 p.m. Insome embodiments, an experience set includes transactions made within apreset time window; as an example, around 11-2 p.m. for a “lunch.”Various other preset time windows may also be used.

According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a method implementedon a computer for humanizing in a graphical user interface presentationof transaction data from a financial services computer network includesreceiving, at a computing device, a plurality of experience categories;presenting on a display of the computing device a graphical userinterface (GUI); and updating the GUI in response to receiving arevision to the plurality of experience sets. In this aspect, eachexperience category has an experience category name and an experiencecategory amount; each category contains one or more experience sets of acommon experience set type that fall within a selected time period; eachexperience set has an experience set name, an experience set date (ordate range), an experience set time span, and an experience set amount;each experience set further contains one or more transactions thatrelate (e.g., temporospatially, logically) to the experience set; andeach transaction has a transaction place, a transaction time, and atransaction amount. Again in this aspect, the GUI includes a scrollablelist having at least a portion of the experience category name for eachof the experience categories within the time period; and a breakdownschematic for the time period showing, for each experience category, adistinct graphical element indicative of the experience category amountin the time period.

In some embodiments, the method further includes, in response to a userinput, changing the time period, and accordingly updating both thescrollable list and the breakdown schematic. In some embodiments, themethod further includes, in response to a user input, displaying the oneor more experience sets encompassed by a category. The method may alsoinclude, in response to a user input, displaying a territorial mapshowing each transaction place encompassed by a chosen experiencecategory.

In some embodiments, the method further includes, in response to a userinput, excluding each predefined non-discretionary transaction from eachexperience category and breakdown schematic. The method may furtherinclude, in response to a user input, modifying an experience category.In some embodiments, the method further includes receiving feedback froma user regarding an experience category. The method may further include,in response to a user input, changing an experience set name, removing atransaction from an experience set, adding another transaction to anexperience set, merging an experience set with another experience set,or a combination of such actions.

In one aspect of the present disclosure, a computing device has adisplay screen, the computing device being configured to display on thescreen a plurality of experience sets, additionally being configured todisplay on the screen a calendar schematic showing a disk correspondingto each experience set, and additionally being configured to display onthe screen a breakdown schematic showing a graphical elementcorresponding to each category that includes at least one experienceset, in which each of the plurality of experience sets, the calendarschematic, and the breakdown schematic is selectable and editable by auser.

The embodiments described above have various advantages. For example,instead of a bare list of distinct transactions, groups of transactionsrepresenting common experiences are presented, which makes thepresentation of transactions more similar to how humans think abouttheir money. For instance, instead of distinct “transportation,”“entertainment,” and “dining” transactions, a user may be presented witha “night out” experience, which would encompass the individualtransactions. That makes it easier for a user to understand when and howexpenses are incurred. In addition, providing a list of transactionsaccording to their authorization times, instead of settlement dates,enables a more accurate and precise understanding of the transactions.Grouping of transactions in a user-centric way, rather than amerchant-centric way, improves users' ability to manage their expenses.Furthermore, because the created experience sets may incorporate databeyond what may be available in an isolated transaction, such as thecontext of the transaction, its precise time, its precise location, itsrelationship to other transactions, its secondary attributes that mayrelate to future plans, and an experience set's higher orderrelationship to other experience sets, users gain insights that theywould not have been able to gain from pre-existing lists oftransactions.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

Various objectives, features, and advantages of the disclosed subjectmatter can be more fully appreciated with reference to the followingdetailed description of the disclosed subject matter when considered inconnection with the following drawings, in which like reference numeralsidentify like elements.

FIG. 1 illustrates a graphical user interface (GUI) for introducing thegrouping of transactions into an experience set that may be used in asystem for managing transactions from a financial services computernetwork, according to some embodiments of the present disclosure.

FIG. 2 is a diagram of an illustrative system for managing transactionsfrom a financial services computer network, according to someembodiments of the present disclosure.

FIG. 3 is a diagram of an illustrative system for managing transactionsfrom a financial services computer network, according to someembodiments of the present disclosure.

FIGS. 4 and 5 are flow diagrams showing processing that may occur withina system for managing transactions from a financial services computernetwork, according to some embodiments of the present disclosure.

FIG. 6 illustrates a GUI having a calendar with graphical elementsindicative of total amounts spent for the experience sets in acorresponding day, according to some embodiments of the presentdisclosure.

FIG. 7 illustrates a GUI having a breakdown schematic with graphicalelements indicative of the experience category amounts in a time period,according to some embodiments of the present disclosure.

FIG. 8 illustrates a GUI having both a scrollable list and a calendar,according to some embodiments of the present disclosure.

FIG. 9 illustrates a GUI having a territorial map with transactions ofan experience set, according to some embodiments of the presentdisclosure.

FIG. 10 illustrates a GUI having both a scrollable list and a breakdownschematic, according to some embodiments of the present disclosure.

FIG. 11 illustrates a GUI having the experience sets within a chosenexperience category for a given time period, according to someembodiments of the present disclosure.

FIG. 12 illustrates a GUI having the exclusion of each predefinedrecurring transaction (which is a type of non-discretionary transaction)from each experience category and breakdown schematic, according to someembodiments of the present disclosure.

FIGS. 13-16 are flow diagrams showing processing that may occur within asystem for managing transactions from a financial services computernetwork, according to some embodiments of the present disclosure.

FIGS. 17A-17L illustrate GUIs for improved management of transactiondata from a financial services computer network when some of thetransactions are made over non-contiguous periods of time, according tosome embodiments of the present disclosure.

FIGS. 18-20 are flow diagrams showing processing that may occur within asystem for managing transactions from a financial services computernetwork, according to some embodiments of the present disclosure.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, a system formanaging transactions from a financial services computer network allowsusers to better understand when and how their money is spent by, forexample, intelligently grouping distinct transactions intohuman-relatable “experience sets.” An “experience set” is a group oftransactions that are related to each other in some manner and thatcollectively reflect an experience of a user. Because humans think oftheir expenses relative to experiences, embodiments of the presentdisclosure can allow users to better understand when and how their moneyis spent in the context of experiences, without needing to review, tag,or categorize individual transactions. That way, instead of having toread through a list of distinct transactions, users can view a timelineof their experiences. As an example, if a user takes a taxi ride in theevening, goes to a restaurant, and goes to a movie afterward, thesetransactions can be grouped into a “night out” experience set.Similarly, a trip across the country can be displayed as a “trip,” and avisit to a restaurant and an ice cream shop around noon can be groupedinto a “lunch” experience set. As such, each experience set contains oneor more transactions that are related to each other, for example temporospatially or logically, and reflect an experience of a user. An exampleof a logical relationship is the one between a purchase and the return(e.g., refund) transaction for that purchase. An experience set maygroup transactions based on time, location, or other factors used torelate multiple transactions.

According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, a scalablesystem architecture can allow searching for and identifying multipledifferent kinds of experience sets, using independent business logic foreach kind of experience set. The system may use a transaction hub andmultiple independent experience matchers. Experience matchers can bereadily added or modified to support many different types ofexperiences. As an example of an experience matcher, a “meals”experience matcher might search for transactions that are within a rangeof times (e.g., 6 a.m. to 10 a.m.), have certain merchant category codes(e.g., restaurants), are in physical proximity to each other (e.g.,based on merchant address), and occur in temporal proximity to eachother (e.g., within one hour). Based on the time range, the experiencematchers can tag the group of transactions as a breakfast, lunch, ordinner. As more experience types are identified, such as by userresearch or machine learning, new experience matchers can be easilyadded to detect these new experiences. Since each experience matcheroperates independently from the others and contains its own independentbusiness logic, this provides a scalable solution to the problem ofadding new experience matchers over time.

FIG. 1 shows an illustrative graphical user interface (GUI) 100 that maybe implemented within a system for managing transactions from afinancial services computer network, according to some embodiments ofthe present disclosure. As shown, GUI 100 includes explanatory message102, at least one transaction 104, experience set 106, and control 108.In the example shown, there are three transactions, for each of which, aname, a merchant category, an amount, and a date are shown. The merchantcategories of the transactions in this example are “transportation,”“restaurant,” and “music venue.” These three transactions are groupedinto an experience set (referred to as a “moment” in FIG. 1). Experienceset 106 has the experience name, in this example, “Night Out inWashington, DC.” In addition to a name, experience set 106 includes thenames of its constituent transactions (“Ridesharing Co. A,” “Eatery Co.A,” and “Nightclub Co. A” in this example), the sum of those transactionamounts (or the “experience set amount”) ($127.63 in this example), itstime span (7:37-11:36 p.m. in this example), and its date (March 20 inthis example). In some embodiments, GUI 100 may be displayed to a userfor introductory purposes, such as before a user gets accustomed tousing transaction management via experience sets after which a user maydisable the display of GUI 100.

FIG. 2 shows a system for managing transactions from a financialservices computer network, according to some embodiments of the presentdisclosure. “Financial services computer network” as used herein refersgenerally to one or more computer networks associated with any one ormore financial service providers including banks, credit card providers,or other financial service providers where a user may have an accountassociated with payment transactions. The illustrative system 200includes one or more user devices 230 a, 230 b . . . 230 n (230generally) coupled to server 202 via network 240. The system also allowscommunication with financial services computer network 250 via network240. Server 202 may include processor 204, transaction hub 206, and oneor more experience matchers 208 a, 208 b . . . 208 n (208 generally).System 200 also includes database 220 coupled to server 202. Database220 may include transaction lists 222 and experience sets 224. Thevarious components of system 200 may be connected as shown in FIG. 2, orin any other suitable manner. The system components may be connected byone or more wireless or wireline computer networks.

User devices 230 may include smartphones, tablets, or other mobiledevices configured to install and run user applications (apps). Userdevices 230 may also include laptop or desktop computers. User devices230 may include one or more processors, hardware (e.g., touchscreendevice) and software to receive input from and to display userinterfaces to a user, and local storage. In some embodiments, userdevice 230 may run a money-management application that communicates withserver 202 to retrieve experience sets identified within a list oftransactions. In some embodiments, transaction hub 206 may include anapplication programming interface (API) via which user device 230 canissue various requests disclosed herein.

Transaction hub 206 may be configured to receive a transaction list froma financial services computer network, from a user device, or from adatabase (e.g., transaction lists 222). Transaction hub 206 may also beconfigured to receive transactions one by one, or in any othergroupings, from financial services computer network 250. For example, inresponse to a user authorizing a transaction, financial servicescomputer network 250 may send the transaction in real time totransaction hub 206. A “transaction list” as used herein includes liststhat have at least one transaction (e.g., 1, 2, 3 . . . 10 . . . 20 . .. 100 . . . 200 . . . 1000). Once it has a transaction list, with one ormore transactions either received at once or received at potentiallyvarying times, transaction hub 206 may send a request to one or moreexperience matchers 208 to identify one or more experience sets withinthe transaction list. The experience sets to be identified by experiencematchers 208 may be preliminary, especially when additional follow-ontransactions building up the transaction list are later received. Assuch, the collection of experience sets identified within a transactionlist may be dynamic; it may change and evolve as the transaction listchanges or as parameters affecting the matching process are modified(e.g., by a user, based on personal preferences). Transaction hub 206may be configured to receive one or more identified experience sets fromthe experience matchers, and to store the identified experience sets indatabase 220, for example in experience sets 224. Transaction hub 206may further be configured to store the transaction list in transactionlists 222. Experience sets 224 and transaction lists 222 need not bestructurally distinct tables; the sets and the transactions may berelationally identified through flags that indicate which transactionsbelong in which experience sets.

In some embodiments, transaction hub 206 sends the same transaction listto a plurality of experience matchers. After processing by theexperience matchers, transaction hub 206 may receive one or moreidentified experience sets from one or more of the experience matchers.As an example, after sending a transaction list containing transactions1 through 8, transaction hub may receive an identified experience setfrom experience matcher A 208 a for transactions 4-6 and two additionalidentified experience sets from experience matcher B 208 b fortransactions 1-3 and 7-8. As such, the eight transactions would begrouped into three experience sets of two types. In some embodiments,transaction hub 206 may receive conflicting experience sets from theexperience matchers. This can happen when two or more receivedexperience sets share at least one transaction (e.g., differentalternative groupings of transactions or different experience setassignments). For such cases, transaction hub 206 may be configured toresolve the conflicts, for instance by also receiving a match score fromeach of the experience matchers. Transaction hub 206 may also beconfigured to resolve conflicts by applying a predetermined hierarchy ofpriorities—for example, a “trip” may be chosen to be more meaningfulthan “lunch” if a transaction is matched as both a lunch and as a trip.The hierarchy may be determined by user research, user feedback, ormachine learning. The scores can be used by the transaction hub tochoose between different experiences set assignments, or to create anoptimal grouping of transactions. In some embodiments, the transactionhub may group the transactions into sub-lists, and send to theexperience matchers the sub-lists for identifying an experience set thatis constrained to include all of the transactions in the sub-list.

Experience matchers 208 may each contain a processor and a memory.Experience matchers 208, in some embodiments, need not include adedicated processor; instead, they may run on one or more separateprocessors, which may be individual or shared. Experience matchers 208,in various embodiments, run as distinct processes regardless of the typeof processor used. This provides several benefits, including scalability(as more experience matchers are added, the transaction hub isn'tdirectly impacted), asynchronicity (the experience matchers can workseparately on different timescales without depending on each other orthe transaction hub), and the ability to swap in or out experiencematchers (e.g., if they crash, if their update is needed, for some otherreason). In some embodiments, the experience matchers may rely oninstructions stored in memory as well as a local database of transactionhistory to reference as new transactions come in. However,implementation may also include the ability to call out to the networkto reference other sources of information, such as a machine learningmodel or a more detailed history of a user's behaviors and transactions,in order to better identify experience sets.

Experience matchers 208, in some embodiments, are configured to receivea list of transactions, identify one or more experience sets within thelist, and return the one or more identified experience sets. Experiencematchers 208 may be configured to receive the list of transactionseither all at once, or to receive transactions one by one (e.g.,individually or in groups, such as when a user makes them) and therebyprocess a transaction list that is adjusted as new transactions arereceived (e.g., in real time). In some embodiments, each experiencematcher is configured to identify only one type of experience set. Assuch, new experience matchers may be added easily as they are identifiedthrough user feedback or machine learning. In some embodiments, theexperience matchers are constrained to identify an experience set thatwould include all of the transactions within a received sub-list oftransactions.

As one specific example of a basic implementation of an experiencematcher, a “meals” experience matcher, which looks for meals, isprovided as follows. This implementation can be augmented to utilizemachine learning, user feedback, etc. For example, the time rangesreferenced in the meals experience matcher can be adjusted based onmachine learning to show what times of day the users tend to purchasemeals. The meals experience matcher provided in this example is based ontime, location, and previous transaction history. This experiencematcher may keep a local data store of transaction history for a givenuser. When a given transaction is received by this meals experiencematcher, the meals experience matcher may perform the following steps:

-   1. Checks that the transaction is within a set of allowed merchant    category codes (MCCs). That set might include code 5812 (eating    places, restaurants), code 5813 (drinking places), etc. If the    transaction is not in the set, the experience matcher determines    it's not part of a meal, at least within the scope of this step.-   2. If the transaction is within the MCC set, the experience matcher    then checks the time of day that the transaction occurred, and    determines whether the transaction occurred within certain time    intervals. For breakfast, the transaction may have to occur between    around 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. For lunch, the transaction may have to    occur between around 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. For dinner, the transaction    may have to occur between around 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. If the transaction    is not within an allowed time interval, the experience matcher may    determine it is not part of a meal.-   3. If the transaction is within the MCC set and within an allowed    time interval, the experience matcher may determine that it is a    meal experience set. But the experience matcher may also look in the    local data store to see if there was another matching meal recently.    If so, the transaction is appended to that previous meal experience    set.

a. For example: if transaction 1 comes in at 11:30 a.m. at Restaurant A,it may be classified as a lunch. The experience matcher reports backthat transaction 1 belongs in a lunch experience set.

b. If transaction 2 then comes in at 11:45 a.m. at Ice Cream Vendor B,it is a lunch and it is the same lunch as transaction 1. The experiencematcher may report back that transaction 1 and 2 belong together in thesame lunch experience set.

-   4. Then, regardless of whether a meal experience set was found or    not, the transaction may be added to the local data store of    transaction history for future reference.

As another specific example of a basic implementation of an experiencematcher, a “human category” experience matcher, which condenses complexcategories into a smaller set of simple categories and also groups basedon time/location is provided as follows. The human category experiencematcher aims to condense transaction categories from MCCs—which aremerchant-facing, often inexplicable categories—to human-understandablecategories, and it also aims to aggregate transactions that are closelyrelated in time/location. This provided example is a “grocery shoppingtrip” where a user visits two grocery stores to get all of his/heritems. The experience matcher may keep a local data store of transactionhistory for any given user. When any given transaction comes into theHuman Category experience matcher, it may perform the following steps:

-   1. The experience matcher may contain a mapping table (in memory or    in a database) which maps all possible MCCs (of which there may be    hundreds or more) to a pre-determined list of human categories (of    which there may be approximately ten or so in this example). The    experience matcher may map the transaction to the human category,    and may call the resulting set a human category experience set.-   2. The experience matcher then may check the local data store to see    if any other transactions belonging to that human category occurred    within the last hour or two (this is configurable). If so, the    experience matcher may determine that the new transaction belongs to    the same human category experience set from before.

a. Example: transaction 1 comes in at 2 p.m. at Food Retail Co. A (code5411—“grocery stores, supermarkets”). The experience matcher determinesthis is a “groceries” category (“groceries” is one of ten or so humancategories in this example) and reports this back to the transactionhub.

b. Transaction 2 comes in at 2:45 p.m. at Food Retail Co. B (also code5411). The experience matcher may determine that this is a “groceries”category, and also may see that there was a previous groceriesexperience set from earlier. The experience matcher may report back thattransaction 1 and transaction 2 both belong in the same “groceries”experience set.

The parameters defining the exemplified meals experience matcher andhuman category experience matcher, such as the MCC sets and the timeranges, may be modified. Similar parameters for experience matchersother than the two particular ones detailed here may also be modified,for example as re-calibrated default values, as updated suggestedvalues, or as values chosen by users. Other than parameters foridentifying an experience set, other parameters affecting the list oftransactions may also result in changes to the identified experiencesets. For example, while a chosen time range of 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. maydirectly affect identification of a breakfast experience set, aneffective time-restriction preventing some experience sets from spanningmore than a certain number of days (e.g., 1, 2, 3, 7, 30), such asthrough sending a list of transactions only for one full day to theexperience matchers, might also indirectly affect the identifiedexperience sets. New experience matchers may be added, other ones may bedeleted, some may be merged, and some may be split into more specificexperience matchers, for example based on user research or machinelearning. Many of these modifications may be carried out with ease, inpart because the experience matchers are independent from each other.

Experience sets may include an experience set name, an experience setdate (or date range), an experience set time span, and an experience setamount (corresponding to the total monetary expenditure of theconstituent transactions). Experience set names may include “lunch,”“night out,” “trip,” and many others, and may also include names chosenby a user. In some embodiments, the constituent transactions of anexperience set temporo spatially relate to each other, in other wordsthey occur in physical proximity (e.g., 1 mile, 2 miles, 3 miles, 4miles, 5 miles, 6 miles, 7 miles, 8 miles, 9 miles, 10 miles) to eachother within a certain time range (e.g., 1 hr., 2 hrs., 3 hrs., 4 hrs.,5 hrs., 6 hrs., 7 hrs.). Each transaction may have a transaction name, atransaction time, a transaction place, and a transaction amount.

Experience sets may be created, in some embodiments, by using varioustransaction attributes, such as location and time. The sets may also becreated by relying on correlations between various transactions, asobtained from analysis of one or more users' transaction histories. Insome embodiments, the experience sets are created using clusteringalgorithms (e.g., k-means, UPGMA, DBSCAN, or any other known algorithm).The dimensionality of the transaction attributes for clustering may betwo (e.g., time and location) or it may be higher than two (e.g., time,location, and cross-correlation value). For some embodiments, processingof transaction data includes making use of information related to theauthorization request. This enables, for example, using the time that amerchant or point of sale has requested authorization for thetransaction, which confers real-time capabilities for recognizing aparticular time a transaction has occurred so as to distinguish betweenlunch and breakfast, etc. Usage of authorization time as opposed to theusual settlement time improves over pre-existing methods of handlingtransaction lists. In addition, the transaction data may be processed toobtain the particular location that a transaction has occurred, whichalso helps with improving accuracy of grouping transactions intoexperience sets. In some embodiments, the financial services computernetwork 250 may obtain the authorization time on the backend using athird party payment processor (not shown here). In contrast,conventional financial service providers may not be able to obtain theauthorization time which results in inaccurate grouping of transactionsinto experience sets. Processing the transaction data to gain insightson the location of merchants is further described in U.S. patentapplication Ser. No. 14/162,850, filed on Jan. 24, 2014, which is herebyincorporated by reference in its entirety.

Database 220 may include non-volatile memory configured to store datafor transaction lists and experience sets. In some embodiments, database220 may include a relational database having one or more tables to storeusers, transaction lists, and experience sets. Transaction lists 222 andexperience sets 224 may each have various associated attributes, such asuser, name, date, time, place, and amount. Some of the attributes may besingular values (e.g., $10), while some may be arrays or matrices (e.g.,two coordinate values for location, or multiple values for theconstituent transactions). The tables may reference each other, insteadof replicating data. As such, database 220 may contain the informationfor transactions and experience sets in a common table, rather than inseparate transactions lists 222 and experience sets 224.

As shown in FIG. 3, the server and the database may form part of serverarchitecture 380. The server architecture may include transaction hub330 coupled to importer 360 for receiving transactions from financialservices computer network 370, and may include load balancer 320,coupled to transaction hub 330, for communicating with user devices 310.The transaction hub may further be coupled to databases 350 and toexperience matchers 340.

Transaction hub 330 may receive transactions in real time from importer360, and may send them over to the experience matchers 340 to discoverexperience sets, and then may store the transactions and experience setsin databases 350 and make them available as an API for user devices 310to fetch experience sets to display to users. In a sense, transactionhub 330 acts as a coordinator. Transaction hub 330 may also standardizethe formats of different transaction types (e.g. bank transactions andcredit card transactions) as they may have different data formats ascompared to those of different financial services computer networks 370.

Importer 360 is a tool that may import transactions in real time fromfinancial services computer network(s) 370. The implementation detailscan be varied, for example it could be scheduled to call an API or alive streaming data platform. There may be different variants of theimporter to talk to different financial services computer networks(e.g., a “credit card transaction importer” that can receive credit cardtransactions, vs. a “bank transaction importer” that can receive banktransactions). For credit card transactions, importer 360 may also servethe role of reconciling initial card “authorizations” (which provide aprecise timestamp such as “Jul. 2, 2018, 10:23 AM”—but are not officialcharges to a customer yet) with the subsequent transaction “posts”(which are officially charged to a customer, but only provide a datewith day-precision such as e.g. “Jul. 2, 2018”), to ensure that accuratetimestamp data is available on transactions possible for the experiencematchers to utilize.

Experience matchers 340 may receive transactions from the transactionhub in real time (as they are relayed to the transaction hub), performdiscrete domain-specific logic to identify experience sets (each matcherknows how to look for one or more specific experience set types), andreport the experience sets back to transaction hub 330 for storage indatabases 350. In some embodiments, each experience matcher 340 includesits processor 342 and its memory 344. In some embodiments, processorscan be external to the experience matchers and can be shared or pooledamong experience matchers. In some embodiments, transaction hub 330includes processor 332 and memory 334. In some embodiments, processor332 may be external to transaction hub 330, and may be a sharedprocessor.

Load balancer 320 is a tool that can be used in large scale computing.It helps to distribute requests from large numbers of user devices 310to multiple running instances of transaction hub 330 (and experiencematchers 340, importer 360, etc.) to optimize resources, maximizethroughput, and minimize response time.

Databases 350 may store both transaction history and experience setinformation (including metadata about the experience sets) for referenceand access by transaction hub 330. A user device 310 may be a computer,smartphone, tablet, web browser, etc.

Using multiple databases may allow for scaling the architecture. Usingmultiple experience matchers may allow for scaling per host (e.g.,through multiprocessors or multithreads) and scaling across hosts (e.g.,for clustering/distributed processing). Using multiple separateexperience matchers may also allow for easily scaling the number andtype of experience sets that can be processed. For example, if feedbackfrom an individual user requests dividing a single experience set type(e.g., “night out”) into more granular experience set types (e.g.,“Friday night out,” “Saturday night out,” and “Sun-Thu night out”), sucha change in the experience set numbers and types can be accommodatedwithin the scalable architecture. In some embodiments, different usersmay use different experience set types, and such preferences may eitherbe received from a user device or stored in database 350 Similarly, newexperience set types can be added by incorporating new experiencematchers into the server architecture.

In an implementation, experience matchers may be added manually.However, they can also be added or adjusted automatically. Machinelearning models (e.g., by continuous learning or reinforcement learningor retraining) can be utilized to update an experience matcher in realtime. It is also possible to design a generic experience matcher whosemain logic is to “consult the machine learning model for [xyz] trend”and as the machine learning model discovers new trends, to dynamicallyspin up a new instance of this generic experience matcher tuned to lookfor that specific trend. Some implementations of the experience matchersmay use hardcoded logic (e.g. the meal time ranges), but these may alsobe designed to be adjustable based on user experience research or userfeedback. For example, if users report that they often have lunch at10:30 a.m., the experience matcher could be adjusted (e.g., in realtime) to account for this. Machine learning might also show that usersstart eating lunch around 10:30 a.m. and adjust the experience matchersaccordingly.

FIG. 4 shows method 400 for forming an experience set from a transactionlist received from a financial services computer network, according tosome embodiments of the present disclosure. Method 400 may beimplemented within a server, such as server 202 shown in FIG. 2. Atblock 402, a transaction hub may obtain a past transaction list from afinancial services computer network. In some embodiments, thetransaction hub may obtain the past transaction list from a database ora user device. Once the transaction hub updates the past transactionlist into a current transaction list (block 406) upon receiving a newtransaction (block 404), it may send the current transaction list tomultiple experience matchers (block 408). This, in some embodiments,reflects the ability of the system to process transactions in real time,for example by sending an updated transaction list after receipt of eachnew transaction. In some embodiments, transaction hub may send a past orcurrent transaction list to the experience matchers at certain times(e.g., 10 p.m. each day) or with certain periods (e.g., every 2 hours)or after certain events (e.g., receipt of an update, such as a newtransaction). At block 410, each of the multiple experience matchersanalyzes the current transaction list to identify an experience set. Insome embodiments, each experience matcher is configured to search foronly one type of experience set, although there may be more than oneexperience matcher that searches for the same type of set to attainscalability. After an experience matcher identifies an experience setwithin the transaction list, the transaction hub may receive thatidentified set (e.g., the information for the experience set, such asits constituent transactions) at block 412, and then store it at block414 in a database. The information that the transaction hub receivesfrom the experience matcher may include the name, date(s), and timerange for the experience set. In some embodiments, the name, date(s),and time range of the identified experience set may also be generated bythe transaction hub, without needing to receive those from an experiencematcher. In some embodiments, the transaction hub pre-processes atransaction list (current or past) into sub-lists, and then sends one ormore of the sub-lists to the multiple experience matchers so that theycan find an experience set that contains all of the transactions in thesub-list. In some embodiments, the transaction hub may send to theexperience matchers a longer transaction list that may contain more thanone experience set.

FIG. 5 shows method 500, implemented within a scalable systemarchitecture, for generating a humanized experience set from a list oftransactions, according to some embodiments of the present disclosure.Method 500 may be implemented within a server architecture such asserver architecture 380 shown in FIG. 3. At block 502, a transaction hubof the server may receive a transaction stream from a financial servicescomputer network, and then send a list of transactions from the stream,at block 504, to multiple experience matchers of the server. Thetransaction stream refers to an updated collection of transactionsreceived from a source such as a financial services computer network,which may be updated continually or periodically or on an event basis.For example, for a given exemplary start date (which can be changed) ofthe beginning of the month, the transaction stream includes thecontinually growing list of transactions since the beginning of themonth up until the time that processing within the system occurs. Thelist of transactions that can be obtained from this transaction streammay contain all of the transactions of the transaction stream in someembodiments; however, once obtained from the transaction stream forprocessing (e.g., for analyzing to identify an experience set within), agiven transaction list has a limited number of transactions, even thougha new updated list of transactions may then be generated from thetransaction stream for further processing (e.g., by sending a new listof transactions to the experience matchers, sending one or more newtransactions to be appended to the list of transactions to create a newlist of transactions). In some embodiments, the list of transactionscontains fewer transactions than the transaction stream (e.g., thetransactions for a given day). The list of transactions may be obtainedfrom the transaction stream through a variety of ways, for example bytaking the last predetermined number of transactions (e.g., 10, 20, 30,40, 50, 60, 70) or transactions for a recent time span (e.g., the last24 hours, the last calendar day, the last 12 hours, the last 6 hours).Once each experience matcher receives the list of transactions at block506, it may analyze the transaction list to identify its type ofexperience set within it at block 508, and determine a match score forany identified experience sets at block 510. After a return of one ormore identified experience sets by the experience matchers at block 512and their receipt at the transaction hub at block 514, the transactionhub may run a prioritization routine at block 516 to obtain an optimal(e.g., based on user feedback or preference or past experiences)grouping of transactions into experience sets, and then store at block518 the found experience sets in a database.

In some implementations having a small set of experience set types, theprioritization may be hard-coded based on the general premise that“special is better than ordinary”. For example, a user may have multiplemeals every day; so, the user will see “meal” experience setsfrequently. If the user is on a trip across the country, the user willalso be eating meals—but, the trip is far less frequent (more special)than meals, so the prioritization may favor the trip over meals. Theleast prioritized experience set type, in some embodiments, may be humancategory (effectively, in these embodiments, a fallback to ensure everytransaction has some sort of human-understandable meaning), andnights-out and trips, in some embodiments, are the most prioritizedexperience set types. Without being limited to such hierarchicalschemes, prioritization may also be based on user feedback and machinelearning. The transaction hub may retain information about matchingexperience sets for a transaction; so, if the user provides feedbackthat he/she prefers a different prioritized experience set (e.g., bymanually editing the experience set), the system could incorporate thisfeedback and provide personalized prioritization on a per-user basis.The system could also observe large scale trends in edited experiencesets to tweak the overall prioritization scheme over time. When newexperience set types are added, they could be added with an initialrelevance indicator (e.g., something like “special” or “medium” or“ordinary”) to provide some initial prioritization, but thatprioritization could be adjusted by the system over time in response touser feedback or machine learning.

In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides systems and methodsfor improved visualization of transaction lists, as further explainedbelow.

FIG. 6 illustrates GUI 600 that has a calendar view associated withexperience sets, according to some embodiments of the presentdisclosure. As shown, GUI 600 includes an explanatory message 602, whichmay be disabled by a user, and calendar 604. On the calendar, graphicalelement 606 indicates the relative total dollar amount of all experiencesets in the day under which it is placed. In the shown embodiment, thegraphical element is a disk, and has an area proportional to the totalexperience set amount in that day. Also shown is control 608, whichallows a user to request display of experience sets covered by the daysshown in the calendar. One way in which GUI 600 may improve overexisting interfaces lies in its use of authorization times, which may beobtained from a financial services computer network via an importer, andwhich allow for improved and accurate insights into the spendingpatterns of a user. The use of precise authorization times, as opposedto the standard settlement times, enables a user to intuitivelyvisualize their transactions in the unique calendar view and gain anunderstanding of spending relationships that are not available inexisting interfaces (e.g., experience set types for which a user spendsmost; experience set types and how they vary with days of the week, orwith other patterns of time).

FIG. 7 illustrates another example of improved visualization oftransaction lists, showing GUI 700 that has a breakdown schematicassociated with experience set categories, according to some embodimentsof the present disclosure. As shown, GUI 700 includes explanatorymessage 702, which a user may disable, and breakdown schematic 704. Thebreakdown schematic contains graphical elements 706 each of whichindicates a distinct experience set type and total dollar amount forthat experience set type. An experience set type (alternatively,experience set category) is a collection of one or more experience setseach of which has the same type. In some embodiments, it is possible foran experience set type to overlap with or resemble a traditional MCC;however, an experience set type comprises one or more experience setsthat reflect a user's experiences rather than being solely or primarilybased on individual transactions sharing a merchant-based code orrelated codes. In some embodiments, GUI 700 allows displayingtraditional MCC-based groupings of transactions as well. In someembodiments, users may create their own categories for the experiencesets, which can be visualized in GUI 700. Control 708 allows a user torequest display of a breakdown of the experience set types covered bythe breakdown schematic. In some embodiments, the breakdown schematic islimited to experience sets within a time period (e.g., one week, onemonth). In some embodiments, an experience set type is a higher ordersummary of the experience sets. For example, experience set “night outat location X” and “night out at location Y” may both belong to the sameexperience set type “night out.” In contrast to existing interfaces, GUI700 allows a user to visualize expense categories that are meaningful toa customer, rather than to a merchant. This is, in part, due to thegrouping of transactions with precise authorization data (e.g., time,place) by the independent experience matchers into meaningful experiencesets, which are further collectively displayed as experience set typesin breakdown schematic 704.

In some embodiments, the system may not directly show MCCs to users,because MCCs are merchant-facing and often not as meaningful for users.Therefore, categories are at least conceptually distinct from MCCs, evenif they sometimes may appear similar in practice. Instead of MCCs, thesystems and methods disclosed herein may use “human categories.” Asmentioned earlier, in some embodiments there is an experience matcherthat maps MCCs to human categories, of which there are around 10 in someembodiments, and which are human-meaningful (categories such as“shopping” or “food”). Some of the human categories may be reminiscentof MCCs—for example, “groceries” is a human category and also MCC 5411(“grocery stores, supermarkets”). However, other human categories may bemore general and may capture multiple MCCs (e.g. “food” is a humancategory that has many MCCs, like 5812 “eating places, restaurants” and5814 “fast food restaurants”).

FIG. 8 illustrates GUI 800, which has calendar 802 and scrollable list804 (titled as “Moment Journal” for the end user in this embodiment),according to some embodiments of the present disclosure. Scrollable list804 includes a listing of dates, such as the shown date 814, and alisting of experience sets. As exemplified by the shown topmostexperience set, an experience set may have experience set name 806,experience set amount 808, experience set time span 810, and one or moreconstituent transactions 812. In some embodiments, a user can choose adate range, according to which the calendar and the scrollable listwould be updated to contain experience sets within the chosen daterange. For the days in the calendar in which expenses have beenincurred, a graphical element (such as graphical element 606 shown inFIG. 6) may be shown in the calendar. The graphical element may beindicative of the total amount spent on that day (e.g., via proportionalsizing). In some embodiments, as a user chooses (e.g., clicks on, tapson) a date on the calendar, the scrollable list is updated so as to showthe experience sets of that day at the top Similarly, in someembodiments, as a user chooses a date on the scrollable list, thegraphical element for that day is differentiated (e.g., highlighted,enlarged, encircled, recolored, flashed) on the calendar. In someembodiments, the scrollable list by default shows only the top few(e.g., two, three) constituent transactions for each experience set. Incontrast to the existing interfaces, GUI 800 enables a user tointeractively visualize how a particular experience set fits intohis/her overall spending pattern.

In some embodiments, a user may activate (e.g., click on, tap on) anexperience set to see more details, such as a full list of itsconstituent transactions. In some embodiments, the GUI may have aterritorial map of the experience set, as shown in the figure describednext.

FIG. 9 shows GUI 900, according to some embodiments of the presentdisclosure. GUI 900 includes territorial map 904 and experience set name902 for which the map is displayed. Under the map, in this embodiment,shown are experience set amount 906 and constituent transactions such astransaction 908. In contrast to existing interfaces, GUI 900 allowsusers to visualize the spatial attributes of their experiencesdistinctly from their other experiences.

In some embodiments, in addition to or apart from viewing a calendar, auser may view a breakdown schematic to visualize a transaction list, asshown in the figure described next.

FIG. 10 shows GUI 1000, according to some embodiments of the presentdisclosure. GUI 1000 includes breakdown schematic 1002, category listingname 1004, and experience set categories such as experience set category1006. In some embodiments, breakdown schematic includes graphicalelements that correspond to experience set categories, and which mayalso be indicative of the total amounts spent in those categories (asshown in FIG. 7). In some embodiments, there is a default date window(e.g., current month) that may be changed to any other date window by auser. The displayed breakdown schematic and category listing may beupdated to contain the experience sets within the date window andexclude experience sets outside of the date window. In some embodiments,a user may activate an experience set category by clicking on it,tapping on it, etc. and visualize the constituent experience sets withinthe category. One example of that is shown in the next described figure.

FIG. 11 shows GUI 1100, according to some embodiments of the presentdisclosure. GUI 1100 includes part of breakdown schematic 1102,experience set category name 1104, experience set category total 1106,and constituent experience sets, such as the topmost shown experienceset with experience set name 1108, experience set amount 1112,experience set date 1116, experience set time (e.g., start time, endtime, time span) 1114, and the constituent transactions such astransaction 1110. In contrast to existing interfaces, GUI 1100 enablesusers to visualize their experience set types, which of such experienceset types they spend the most on, and what particular transactions eachexperience set has in a given time frame. The processing of individualtransactions by the multiple independent experience matchers,coordinated by the transaction hub, enables creation of experience sets,which further allows collections of experience set types, for example bythe transaction hub or even by a user device, to be generated anddisplayed for providing insights to a user.

In some embodiments, for example those including a calendar, breakdownschematic, scrollable list, category listing, or any combination ofthese, a user may include or exclude non-discretionary (e.g., recurring)transactions in each of the visualizations. Non-discretionarytransactions are those that reflect the expenses that a user would notnormally be able to reduce or otherwise change. For example, in someembodiments, rent payments are classified as non-discretionary, sincewhile a user may theoretically relocate or not pay rent, under normalcircumstances the user is expected to pay a pre-agreed amount of rentSimilarly, utility bills, gym membership fees, etc. can be classified asnon-discretionary. What is classified as non-discretionary may becustomized by a user. An example of excluding non-discretionary expensesis shown in the figure described next.

FIG. 12 illustrates GUI 1200, according to some embodiments of thepresent disclosure. GUI 1200 includes breakdown schematic 1202 andmessage 1204 explaining that bill expenditures are hidden from two typesof views. In this example, bill expenses are classified as a recurringtransaction (a type of non-discretionary transaction); a user may modifywhat is classified as a non-discretionary (e.g., recurring) transactionin some embodiments. By removing non-discretionary expenses fromvisualization, GUI 1200 provides users with greater insight into howthey can better take control of their expenses. Since discretionaryexpenses such as nights-out are more within the control of a user thanare non-discretionary expenses such as electricity bills, removingnon-discretionary expenses from the visualizations can give new insightsto users and aid in understanding of the users' finances.

Discovery of recurring transactions specifically, or non-discretionarytransactions generally, can be accomplished via various methods, such asvia those involving machine learning based on large sets of a user'stransactions. In an implementation, a hardcoded approach that looksspecifically for transactions like debits for Bill Pay, etc. can beused. Non-discretionary transaction models may look through lists of auser's past transaction data, and may further factor in the merchantname (the transaction description), the amount, and closeness to a knownperiod (weekly, biweekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly, semimonthly, firstof the month, last of the month, and others). These models may also havea given forgiveness range, since a bill may fluctuate a certain amountmonth to month, or may be paid within a few days of the exact month,give or take. Unexpectedly large fluctuations may be used for otherpurposes, such as sending an email to the users to give them a heads upabout a larger-than-usual bill they were charged. In someimplementations, the transactions that are determined to benon-discretionary may then be presented to the user in a simpleinterface that allows them to confirm or edit the recurrence details,cancel false positives, and add any non-discretionary transactions thatmay have been missed altogether. These user-corrections may also be usedto train and improve the non-discretionary transaction models.

FIG. 13 shows a method for improved visualization of transaction datafrom financial services computer network, according to some embodimentsof the present disclosure. Method 1300 may be implemented within a userdevice, such as user device 230 shown in FIG. 2. At block 1302, acomputing device may receive one or more experience sets that haveoccurred within a time window, for example from a server, and at block1304, present a scrollable list of the experience sets, for example asshown in FIG. 8. The scrollable list may be reverse chronological, sothat the newest experience set is above the others (e.g., experience sethaving experience set name 806 in FIG. 8). It may also be forwardchronological. In addition, as shown in block 1306, the computing devicemay present a calendar for the same time period, and in the calendar, itmay show graphical elements that indicate the total amounts spent forthe experience sets in their respective days (e.g., in FIG. 8, calendar802). In response to a change, such as the addition of one or more newexperience sets or a change in the date window, the computing device mayupdate the scrollable list and the calendar (block 1308). The shownmethod and its various implementations allow a user to visualize expensecategories that are meaningful to a customer, rather than to a merchant.This is, in part, due to the grouping of transactions with preciseauthorization data (e.g., time, place) by the independent experiencematchers into meaningful experience sets. As such, the methods enable auser to interactively visualize how a particular experience set fitsinto his/her overall spending pattern.

FIG. 14 shows another method 1400 for improved visualization oftransaction data, according to embodiments of the present disclosure.Method 1400 can be implemented in a user device. Once a user devicereceives one or more experience sets (block 1402), it may present themat block 1404 in a scrollable list, and at block 1406 in a calendar withgraphical elements (such as graphical elements 606 shown in FIG. 6). Inresponse to a user scrolling through the scrollable list, the userdevice may highlight in the calendar a graphical element thatcorresponds to the day for the topmost date in the scrollable list(block 1408) Similarly, in response to a user choosing an element in thecalendar (e.g., by tapping on it, by clicking on it, by hovering on it),the user device may scroll the corresponding date with experience setsto the top of the viewable area of the scrollable list (block 1410).Furthermore, in response to a user input, the user device may display aterritorial map for the constituent transactions of a chosen experienceset (block 1412). The user device may also exclude all non-discretionary(e.g., recurring) transactions from view in response to a user input(block 1414). Additionally, the user device may modify both thescrollable list and the calendar schematic in response to receiving arevision to the experience sets that requires a modification for correctdisplay (block 1416).

A person skilled in the art will understand that the shape, sizes,and/or style of the graphical elements, such as graphical elements 606shown in FIG. 6, can be varied in order to convey information aboutexperience sets and categories (e.g., type and amount information).

FIG. 15 shows method 1500 for humanizing presentation of transactiondata from a financial services computer network, according to someembodiments of the present disclosure. Method 1500 may be implemented ina user device, such as user device 310 shown in FIG. 3. At block 1502,user device may receive multiple experience categories, each containingone or more experience sets. The user device may present in a GUI ascrollable list of the categories at block 1504, and may present abreakdown schematic with graphical symbols for each category at block1506. Each of blocks 1504 and 1506 may be for a time period. At block1508, the user device may update both the scrollable list and thebreakdown schematic in response to a revision to the experience setcategories. The shown method and its various implementations enableusers to visualize their experience set types, which of such experienceset types they spend the most on, and what particular transactions eachexperience set has in a given time frame. The processing of individualtransactions by the multiple independent experience matchers,coordinated by the transaction hub, enables creation of experience sets,which further allows collections of experience set types, for example bythe transaction hub or even by a user device, to be generated anddisplayed for providing insights to a user.

FIG. 16 shows process 1600 for visualizing transaction data, accordingto some embodiments of the present disclosure. Method 1600 may beimplemented in a user device, such as user device 310 shown in FIG. 3.At block 1602, a user device may receive multiple experience categories,and at block 1604 the user device may present a GUI having a scrollablelist of the categories. Additionally, the user device may present in theGUI a breakdown schematic with graphical elements that correspond to thecategories (block 1606). Blocks 1604 and 1606 reference a time period,which is the time period during which the experience sets of theexperience categories occur, and which may be a preset or selected timeperiod. The time period may be changed by a user and, upon such achange, at block 1608, the scrollable list and the breakdown schematicmay be updated. At block 1610, in response to user input, the userdevice may exclude the predefined non-discretionary (e.g., recurring)transaction for each experience category and the breakdown schematic. Atblock 1612, upon receiving other types of revisions, such as those tothe experience sets or experience categories, the user device may modifythe scrollable list and the breakdown schematic to reflect therevisions.

Referring to FIGS. 17A though 17N, an experience set may encompasstransactions that are made over non-contiguous periods of time, meaningthe constituent transactions of an experience set may be, in achronological list of individual transactions, interspersed with othertransactions that are not part of the same experience set. FIGS. 17Athough 17N illustrate grouping non-contiguous transactions intoexperience sets, according to some embodiments of the presentdisclosure. The GUIs shown in these figures can be implemented in a userdevice, such as user device 230 of FIG. 2.

Referring to FIGS. 17A and 17B, a GUI may be displayed to a user whenthe server, such as server 202 shown in FIG. 2, detects that the userhas made a transaction associated with an event that is to occur at adate later than the transaction (at “target date”), as further describedin the rest of this disclosure. For example, a transaction correspondingto the purchase of a plane ticket on the first day of a month might befor a flight that is to occur on the nineteenth of the same month, inwhich case the event is the flight, and the target date is thenineteenth of the month. This type of transaction (such as thepurchasing of a plane ticket in the above example) is referred to hereinas a “trigger transaction.” If the trigger transaction is a purchase, itmay also be referred to herein as a “trigger purchase.” The illustrativeGUI can include query message 1702, a first control 1704 a for a user toapprove grouping the trigger transaction, and a second action control1704 b for a user to reject grouping the trigger transaction. In theshown example, the trigger purchase is a booking of a flight for a laterdate (“September 4^(th)”). Other types of trigger transactions mayinclude purchasing or booking a cruise, a train ride, a bus ride, arental car, an event space, a hotel room, a motel room, or a hostelspace. User research or machine learning may lead to the discovery ofmore trigger transactions in the future, which may be added to themethods and systems disclosed herein. As shown in FIG. 17B, when a userapproves booking the trigger transaction with associated futuretransactions, explanatory message 1706 confirms that decision, andcontrol 1708 allows the user to close the message.

Referring to FIGS. 17C and 17D, in some embodiments, the user device maydisplay reminder message 1710, and allow a user to see further detailsby clicking on control 1712.

Referring to FIGS. 17E-17H, in some embodiments, during the trip,informational messages 1714, 1716, and 1718 may inform the user thatcertain purchases have been added to the experience set associated withthe initial trigger purchase (e.g., flight booking in this case).

Referring to FIGS. 17I-L, after the experience comes to an end,explanatory message 1720 may provide a brief summary of the experienceand control 1722 may allow a user to view further details regarding theexperience. The further details of the experience may include a name forthe experience set, such as experience set name 1724 and constituenttransactions such as transaction 1726, which is displayed with its dateand amount in this example. The ending of an experience may be detectedeither in response to a user input, based on external data (e.g.,through email scraping), through trigger purchase details (e.g., returnflight booking), or through another subsequent transaction indicatingthat the experience is over (e.g., a local purchase made at home townaway from the trip location). The summary of the experience, such as itsexperience set name and constituent transactions, may also be displayedin response to a typed or voiced language query by a user, such as byquery 1728.

In some embodiments, if the longest interval between any twotransactions in an experience set is less than a predetermined threshold(e.g., 6 hours, 1 day, 2 days, 1 week), then instead of relying ondetection of a trigger transaction, any of the other methods describedherein may also be used to group transactions (with other unrelatedtransactions interspersed between them) into experience sets.

FIG. 18 shows method 1800 for improved management of transaction datafrom a financial services computer network, according to someembodiments of the present disclosure. Method 1800 may be implementedwithin a server with a server architecture, such as server architecture380 shown in FIG. 3. At block 1802, a server may receive details for afirst purchase, for example via importer 360 shown in FIG. 3, and atblock 1804, detect that it is a trigger purchase. The detection of apurchase as a trigger purchase may be done at an experience matcher,such as an experience matcher 340 shown in FIG. 3 after transaction hub330 sends the transaction to the experience matcher. For example, anon-contiguous experience matcher might be configured to matchtransactions with certain MCCs (e.g., those corresponding to orincluding purchasing or booking a cruise, a train ride, a bus ride, arental car, an event space, a hotel room, a motel room, or a hostelspace) or transactions with certain merchants (e.g., travel agents,hotels) and flag such transactions as trigger transactions forinitiating an experience set that would, after an interval following thetrigger transaction, continue with additional transactions. At block1806, the server may obtain secondary details for the first purchasefrom a data source. The data source may be a third party supplier, suchas a flight booking information supplier, or it may be an authorizedemail scraping application. The secondary details may include a targetdate on which an event with which the trigger transaction is associatedis going to happen. For example, for a plane ticket purchase, thetrigger transaction is the ticket purchase, the event is the flight, andthe target date is the date of the flight. The secondary details mayalso include other details that are less directly associated with thetrigger transaction, such as details that a user may have planned aboutwhat attractions the user will visit after the flight and when the userwill take a return flight. After the first purchase, the server mayreceive details for one or more other unrelated purchases (block 1810)and details for a second purchase made subsequent to the one or moreother unrelated purchases (block 1808). Using the details for the firstpurchase, secondary details for the first purchase, or both, the servermay determine that the second purchase and the first purchase should beclassified as part of a common experience set (block 1812), while theintervening other transactions are not part of the common experienceset. For example, if a transaction received by the non-contiguousexperience matcher has a date that is not within the expected event orexperience date range (e.g., before the target date, after the expectedcompletion date of the experience), then the non-contiguous experiencematcher may exclude such a transaction from the non-contiguousexperience set. On the other hand, if the second purchase has detailsthat conform to the expected details for purchases that belong to thenon-contiguous experience set, then the second purchase may beclassified by the non-contiguous experience matcher as being part of thesame experience set as the first purchase. The server may store thecommon experience set (e.g., including its attributes, such as itsconstituent transactions) to a database (block 1814). In someembodiments, additional purchases after the second purchase may also beadded to the common experience set.

As one particular example of the processing shown in FIG. 18, on a startdate, an importer may receive a transaction corresponding to thepurchasing of a plane ticket. This transaction may be sent by atransaction hub to one or more experience matchers, out of which, anexperience matcher configured to detect trigger transactions woulddetect it as a trigger transaction, indicating that it is for an eventthat will occur on a future date. The experience matcher may perform thematching via comparing the transaction attributes, such as its MCC, itsmerchant name, its name, and/or its description to pre-determinedtrigger transaction attributes, which may be stored in a database. Thetrigger transaction attributes may be accessed by the experience matcheror by the transaction hub (e.g., transaction hub may send the triggertransaction attributes to the experience matchers). Once the detectionof a transaction as a trigger transaction, the plane ticket in thiscase, is made, information for the associated experience set may bestored in a database by the transaction hub. The stored experience set,at that time, would contain the trigger transaction as a constituenttransaction, and it would be open for inclusion of other transactions ata later time. The method may then include obtaining secondary detailsfor the plane ticket purchase, for example from TSYS, which may provideinformation about original flight (e.g., date, airport) and returnflight (e.g., date, airport). From these secondary details, thetransaction hub may flag the experience set to be updated withadditional transactions—pending the testing of these transactions thoughthe experience matchers—during the expected date range. Once the targetdate is reached for the originating flight, the transaction hub mayinitiate sending the transactions that it receives from a financialservices computer network to a collection of experience matchers thatincludes one or more experience matchers configured to detecttransactions that belong to the non-contiguous experience set. In someembodiments, transaction hub may keep track of experience sets that areexpected to accrue additional transactions, and coordinate sending alist of transactions to all experience matchers, or those specificallyincluding/excluding experience matchers that detect trigger transactionsor follow-on transactions, based on the secondary details such as dateranges expected for experience sets. In some embodiments, an experiencematcher (e.g., one designed for detecting trigger transactions, onedesigned to detect follow-on transactions, or one designed to detectboth trigger and follow-on transactions) may keep track of whatexperience sets may include non-contiguous transactions and which onesmay accrue additional transactions.

FIG. 19 shows method 1900 for improving categorization of transactionsby money-management software, according to some embodiments of thepresent disclosure. Method 1900 may be implemented within a server, suchas server 202 shown in FIG. 2. At block 1902, server may receive a firsttransaction from a financial services computer network, and afterdetecting that it is a trigger transaction (e.g., the first of a set oftransactions that form a common experience set) at block 1904, it mayobtain associated forecast data at block 1906. The forecast data mayinclude a target date predicting when the second transaction of theexperience set will occur. On the target date, at block 1908, the servermay receive a second transaction and at block 1910, it may determinethat the two transactions are part of a common experience set (e.g., bycomparing their details and also by using the forecast data). At block1912, the server may store the experience set to a database.

As one example of improving categorization of non-contiguously occurringtransactions, the following may be implemented, for example with respectto processing that occurs in an experience matcher configured to detectboth a trigger transaction and follow-on transactions that belong to thesame experience set as the trigger transaction. In some embodiments,more than one experience matcher may be involved (e.g., one fordetecting trigger transactions and one for detecting follow-ontransactions). Once a transaction is received by the experience matcher,the experience matcher may check that the transaction has one of acertain set of MCCs, for example those that correspond to the purchasingof various tickets or remote accommodations. The experience matcher mayalso check that the merchant for the transaction is one of a certain setof merchants, such as ticket vendors or hotels. The list of MCCs andmerchants may be stored in an accessible database or received from atransaction hub. Once a match is found, the transaction may beclassified as a trigger transaction. Then, the experience matcher mayreceive secondary details for the trigger transaction from thetransaction hub, which in turn may receive them from an external datasource, such as an email scraping application authorized by the user.The secondary details may include a target date for the occurrence ofthe event associated with the trigger transaction, and may furtherinclude an end date for the conclusion of the user's plans that relateto the event. Thereafter, follow-on transactions may be received by theexperience matcher. If those transactions have details that do not matchthe secondary details of the trigger transaction (e.g., being betweenthe target date and the end date, being at or around the eventlocation), then those transactions are classified as not being part ofthe same experience set as the trigger transaction. On the other hand,if some follow-on transactions have details that match the secondarydetails of the trigger transaction, then those follow-on transactionsmay be classified as being part of the same experience set as thetrigger transaction. Multiple follow-on transactions may be added to theexperience set until a terminating condition, such as reaching the enddate, occurs.

FIG. 20 shows method 2000 for forming an experience set from a pluralityof transactions, which can be implemented within a non-transitorycomputer readable medium (e.g., of a server), according to someembodiments of the present disclosure. Method 2000 may include receiptof a first transaction at block 2002, for example from a financialservices computer network via an importer into a transaction hub, andthen a detection that the transaction is a trigger transaction at block2004, for example through processing done within an experience matcher.This detection may be made by matching the transaction type to a list oftransaction types (e.g., plane tickets, hotel bookings), which types maybe stored within a database accessible by one or more experiencematchers or may be supplied to the experience matchers from thetransaction hub, which itself may access the types from a database. Atblock 2006, contextual data may be obtained for the first transactionthough a third-party supplier, such as a travel booking agentinformation provider, and at block 2008, a second transaction may bereceived. It may be determined at block 2010 that the two transactionsare part of the same experience set, for example because an experiencematcher has detected that the details for the second transaction (e.g.,its date, location, MCC) match what has been expected based on thecontextual data and the first transaction (e.g., the first transactionindicated an event on a second date, the contextual data indicated thatthe plans of the user include staying at a location after the seconddate until a third date for certain activities, and the secondtransaction has a date that is between the second date and the thirddate, occurs within the location, and has an MCCs that is within apredetermined list of MCCs that have been associated with the activitiesexpected from the user). Then, the experience set summary may bedisplayed according to the executable instructions of the computerreadable medium. As an example of contextual data, a third supplier mayprovide information regarding a flight purchase such as each leg of theflight, departure date, as well as origin and destination airports foreach leg.

Methods described herein may represent processing that occurs within asystem for managing transactions from a financial services computernetwork, such as system 200 shown in FIG. 2. The subject matterdescribed herein may be implemented in digital electronic circuitry, incomputer software, in firmware, or in computer hardware, including thestructural means disclosed in this specification and their structuralequivalents. The subject matter described herein can be implemented asone or more computer program products, such as one or more computerprograms tangibly embodied in an information carrier, such as amachine-readable storage device, for execution by or control of theoperation of data processing apparatus, such as programmable processoror one or more computers. A computer program, software, application, orcode can be written in any form of programming language (e.g., compiled,interpreted) and it can be deployed in any form (e.g., stand-aloneprogram, module, component, subroutine, other unit suitable for use incomputing environment). A computer program need not correspond to afile, can be stored in a portion of a file, can be stored in a singlededicated file, or can be stored across multiple files. A computerprogram can be deployed to be executed on one computer or on multiplecomputers at one site or can be distributed across multiple sites (e.g.,as interconnected by a communication network).

The processes and logic flows described in this specification, includingthe method steps of the subject matter described herein, can beperformed by one or more programmable processors executing one or morecomputer programs to perform functions of the subject matter describedherein buy operating on input data and generating output. The processesand logic flows can also be performed by, and apparatus of the subjectmatter described herein can be implemented as, special purpose logiccircuitry, such as a field programmable gate array or an applicationspecific integrated circuit.

Processors suitable for the execution of a computer program include bothgeneral and special purpose microprocessors, as well as any one or moreprocessors of any kind of digital computer. Generally, a processor willreceive instructions and data from a read-only memory, a random-accessmemory, or both. The standard elements of a computer are a processor forexecuting instructions and one or more memory devices for storinginstructions and data. Generally, a computer will also include, and/orbe operatively coupled to receive data from or transfer data to, one ormore mass storage devices for storing data, such as magnetic disks,magneto optical disks, or optical disks. Information carriers suitablefor embodying computer program instructions and data include all formsof nonvolatile memory, including semiconductor memory devices such asEPROM, EEPROM, flash memory devices, and magnetic disks. The processorand the memory can be supplemented by or incorporated in special purposelogic circuitry.

The disclosed subject matter is not limited in its application to thedetails of construction and to the arrangements of the components setforth in the specification or illustrated in the drawings. The disclosedsubject matter is capable of being implemented in other embodiments andof being practiced and carried out in various ways. Those skilled in theart will appreciate that the conception, upon which this disclosure isbased, may be described using different phraseology and terminology andmay readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of otherstructures, methods, and systems for carrying out the several purposesof the disclosed subject matter.

Although the disclosed subject matter has been described and illustratedby way of example in the foregoing exemplary embodiments, numerouschanges in the details of the implementation of the disclosed subjectmatter may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of thedisclosed subject matter.

1. A computer-implemented method for improved management of transactiondata from a financial services computer network, the method comprising:receiving, from the financial services computer network by a computersystem comprising one or more processors, details for a first purchasemade by a user on a start date, the details including a merchantcategory code (MCC); detecting, by the computer system, that the firstpurchase is a trigger purchase based on the MCC, the trigger purchasebeing associated with an event to occur on a target date later than thestart date; obtaining, by the computer system, secondary details for thefirst purchase from a data source external to the financial servicescomputer network, wherein the secondary details for the first purchaseidentify the target date; receiving, by the computer system from thefinancial services computer network, details for a second purchase madeby the user on the target date; receiving, by the computer system,details for one or more other purchases made after the first purchaseand before the second purchase; determining, by the computer system,that the second purchase and the first purchase are part of a commonexperience set by comparing the details for the second purchase with atleast one of the details for the first purchase and the secondarydetails for the first purchase; determining by the computer system, thatthe one or more other purchases are not to be part of the commonexperience set by comparing the details for the one or more otherpurchases with at least one of the details for the first purchase andthe secondary details for the first purchase; storing, by the computersystem, the common experience set to a database; and causing, by thecomputer system, information about the common experience set to bedisplayed, the displayed information including information about thefirst purchase and information about the second purchase, and notincluding the details about the one or more other purchases.
 2. Themethod of claim 1, wherein the first purchase is detected as a triggerpurchase by comparing the first purchase details with predeterminedattributes from a trigger transaction database.
 3. The method of claim2, further comprising receiving details for one or more additionalpurchases made after the second purchase, and categorizing the one ormore additional purchases as part of the common experience set.
 4. Themethod of claim 3, further comprising determining that each of theadditional purchases is related to the first purchase by comparing eachof the additional purchase details with the first purchase details, withthe first purchase secondary details, or with both the first purchasedetails and the first purchase secondary details.
 5. The method of claim4, wherein the first purchase secondary details further comprise an enddate after which no purchases are categorized as part of the commonexperience set.
 6. The method of claim 1, wherein the first purchasedetails and the second purchase details are received concurrently witheach other.
 7. The method of claim 1, wherein the first purchase detailsand the second purchase details are received separately and in real timeas each of the first purchase and the second purchase is made.
 8. Themethod of claim 1, wherein the first purchase is detected as a triggerpurchase when the first purchase details indicate that the firstpurchase corresponds to one selected from the group consisting ofpurchasing a flight ticket, purchasing a cruise ticket, purchasing atrain ticket, purchasing a bus ticket, reserving a rental car, reservingan event space, booking a hotel space, booking a motel space, andbooking a hostel space.
 9. The method of claim 1, wherein the firstpurchase secondary details are obtained via email scraping.
 10. Themethod of claim 1, further comprising transmitting, by the computersystem, a prompt for display on a computing device in response todetecting that the first purchase is a trigger purchase.
 11. The methodof claim 10, further comprising: receiving, by the computer system, aresponse to the prompt; and grouping the first purchase and the secondpurchase into the common experience set based at least in part on theresponse to the prompt.
 12. A computer-implemented method for improvingcategorization of transactions by money-management software, the methodcomprising: receiving, by a computer system comprising one or moreprocessors, attributes relating to a first transaction made on a firstdate from a financial services computer network, the attributesincluding a merchant category code (MCC); detecting, by the computersystem, that the first transaction is a trigger transaction based on theMCC, the trigger purchase being associated with an event to occur on asecond date later than the first date; obtaining, by the computersystem, forecast data for the first transaction from a forecast agent,wherein the forecast data identifies the second date; receiving, by thecomputer system after a period encompassing a plurality of unrelatedtransactions, attributes relating to a second transaction made on thesecond date; determining, by the computer system, that the secondtransaction and the first transaction are part of an experience set bycomparing the forecast data to the attributes relating to the secondtransaction; determining, by the computer system, that the unrelatedtransactions are not part of the experience set by comparing theforecast data to attributes relating to the unrelated transactions;storing, by the computer system, the experience set to a database, andcausing, by the computer system, information about the experience set tobe displayed, the displayed information including information about thefirst transaction and the second transaction, and not includinginformation about any of the unrelated transactions.
 13. Thecomputer-implemented method of claim 12, further comprising identifyingthe first transaction as a trigger transaction based on user input. 14.The computer-implemented method of claim 12, wherein the forecast datafurther comprise a place.
 15. The computer-implemented method of claim12, further comprising modifying the forecast data based on user input.16. The computer-implemented method of claim 12, further comprisingcausing a confirmation to be displayed after the second transaction. 17.The computer-implemented method of claim 12, further comprising causinga reminder to be displayed before the second date.
 18. Thecomputer-implemented method of claim 12, further comprising acquiring achoice from a user regarding the second transaction, and determiningthat the second transaction is related to the first transaction based onthe choice.
 19. The computer-implemented method of claim 12, furthercomprising generating a summary of the experience set.
 20. Anon-transitory computer-readable medium for forming an experience setfrom a plurality of transaction data, comprising instructions storedthereon, that when executed by a processor, configure the processor toperform the steps of: receiving details relating to a first transaction;detecting that the first transaction is a trigger transaction bydetermining, based on a merchant category code (MCC), that the firsttransaction corresponds to a transaction selected from the groupconsisting of: purchasing a flight ticket, purchasing a cruise ticket,purchasing a train ticket, purchasing a bus ticket, reserving a rentalcar, reserving an event space, booking a hotel space, booking a motelspace, and booking a hostel space; obtaining contextual data for thefirst transaction, wherein the contextual data is obtained from athird-party supplier; receiving, after more than a week encompassing aplurality of unrelated transactions, a second transaction; determiningby using the contextual data that the second transaction and the firsttransaction are part of an experience set; determining, by using detailsrelating to the unrelated transactions, that the unrelated transactionsare not part of the experience set; and causing a summary of theexperience set to be displayed, wherein the summary comprises a summaryof the first transaction, a summary of the second transaction, and atotal transaction amount that is a sum of an amount of the firsttransaction and an amount of the second transaction, the summary notincluding information about any of the unrelated transactions.